Commonwealth of Nations - eine lose Verbindung souveräner Staaten (deutsch englisch)

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of Nations eine lose Verbindung souveräner Staaten (englisch deutsch) The Commonwealth of Nations (englisch) Commonwealth - an outdated concept or an underrated global power? In this essay I am going to compare two different views and discuss whether the Commonwealth is superfluous or should be further promoted. First of all, I will point out the similarities between Jeremy Paxman s text Empire and Michael Ancram s text Farewell to Drift: A New Foreign Policy for a Network World . The only thing the two have in common is their criticism of the Commonwealth. Even though Jeremy Paxman s text is just criticism, I only want to focus on one specific point. Paxman calls the Commonwealth an organization in which Britain leads still backward nations on to a glorious future (l. 7). On ...